MOORE COUNTY S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15A, NO. 45
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FIRST IN N»EWS,
(IRCL'LATION &
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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, October 4, 1935.
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FIVE CENTS
JURY RULES FOR
MRS. BURGESS IN
WILL LITIGATION
Relatives Attempted To Upset
Ai?reement Dividing Property
of Late Contractor
ESTATE OVER $100,000
Mrs. Molly Burgess, widow of the j
late Thomas S. Burgess, prominent I
business man and contratcor of j
Southern Pines, was winner in a suit i
in Superior Court last week in which
Mrs. R>i.ssie Ellis and other relatives j
of tho deceased, to the number of j
around thirty, sought to have the i
court set aside as having been frau. |
dently obtained a deed which they j-
had previously accepted in settle.'
ment of the estate. I
The suit was brought against Mrs. j
Burgess and H. M. Poe and the quea. i
tion to which the jury answered;
'“No” were: “Did the defendant H.'
M. Poe through false and fraudulent]
representations secure the signa.' <
tures to the deed referred to in the
complaint?" and “Did he wrongful,
ly deliver the deed as alleged?” ,
Mr. Burgess died without leaving;
a will and as there ) ad been no :
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bur. .
gess, she, according to law was en.
titled to receive one.half of his per.
sonal property after payment of the
debts and one.third interest in the
real property during ^er lifetime,
the real property at her death going
back to the estate.
Desiring a ditierenr settlement
from this, one in which she would
have full powers with her part of
the real property, Mrs. Burgess en.
tered into an agreement with the
heirs by which they were to receive
a part of the real property and she
was to receive all of the personal
property and a part of the real in
lieu of her dower and other rights
that she might have. All of the
parties concerned signed the deed
with the exception of five, two of
whom were incompetent, and these
five owned only minor interests.
Later, those who had signed be.
came dissatisfied and filed suit to
have the deed set aside. Mrs. Burgess
contended that the settlement was
fair and equitable, the jury agreed
that it was, and the court ruled that
the plaintiffs take nothing by their
action and taxed them with the costs.
The appraised valuation of the
real property was approximately
$80,000 and of tbo personal approxi.
mately $45,000. By the settlement
the heirs are to receive a little more
than half of the real property, their
share including all of the holdings of
Mr. Burgess in West Southern Pines
and some property in Southern
Pines. Mrs. Burgess gets the home,
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Legion Adopts Resolutions on H. C. FOWNES DIES PWA Turn‘d
Death of Comrade ‘Joe’ Fuller
Mourn His Loss
AT 79 AT HOME
IN PITTSBURGH
;
“Nobility and High Purposes
Motivated Life of Excellent '
j Citizen-Soldier” 1
! I J’rominent Winter Resident of
Re.solut.ons of sympathy to the bo. pinghurst Was Pioneer
reaved widow and estifymg to the Industrialist
• great loss of one of its own comrades
Hospital
Request for w Wing and
Water Works for 3 Towns
Bethesda Pastor
No Moore County IVojects
Amonjf Those Approved
at Washington
“JOE” FULLER
SUNDAY SCHOOL
MOVES FOR PEACE
County Association Also Adopts
Resolution Ajc:ainst Liquor
Traffic
Ground Broken for
New Office Building
Dr. P. J. Chester to Remove to
Rapidly Developing East
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ground was broken this week for
a third new building on East Penn,
sylvania avenue just off Broad
street, Southern Pines. E. W. Rein.
ecke will build for Dr. P. J. Chester
a one story brick office building, an
exact replica of one standing in
historic Fredericksburg, Virginia
built by a physician there in Revo
lutionary times.
The building will have a 20.foot
frontage on Pennsylvania avenue,
with a depth of 60 feet. The plans^
call for a slate roof. There will be
one reception room, an eye_testing
room, business office and three con.
sultation rooms. It is expected to
have it ready for occupancy early
in November.
During the past year Mr. Reine.
eke has put up a building for his
own offices and for Attorney W.
D. Matthews next door to the one
now in process of construction, and
Dr. L. M. Daniels has a new two.
story office building and apartments
the other side of the Reinecke build,
ing. All are of similar style, at
tractive in design and of sturdy con.
struction. The Reinecke office build,
ing is an exact copy of James Mon
roe’s office in Fredericksburg.
FIN*E SESSION AT HEMP
The annual convention of the
Moore County Sunday School Asso
ciation, interdenominational, held in
Hemp last Sunday in cooperation
with the state association, was one
of the largest in attendance in recent
years.
The program, under the guidance
of the general secretary, the Rev.
Shuford Peeler of Salisbury, was of
the highest order and challenged the
attention of the audience every mo_
mnt.
Miss Myrtle A. McDaniel of Salis.
bury, aside from her splendid serv
ice with the discussion groups for
young people and children, conducted
a devotional service which was in a
class of its own: original, unique, and
intensely spiritual.
Mrs. S. R. Smith of Vass was an
inspiration in her work with the
young people, and in her direction of
the dramatization, “Dedication of
Youth to Building a New Commun.
ity,” in the evening. These leaders
were given an enthusiastic vote of
thanks in appreciation of their work.
The program included addresses by
the following;
“The Value of the Sunday School
in Building a New Community,”
Prof. W. P. Morton: “Building a New
Community Through Developing
Christlike Personalities,” the Rev. C.
O. Newell of Pinebluff; “Personal
Evangelism in Building Community
Life,” the Rev. Shuford Peeler;
"How May Young People Cooperate
in Making a New Community?” Prof.
E. A. West; dramatization, "Dedica.
tion of Youth to Building a New
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j were adopted this week by Sandhill DIRECTOR OF BANK HERE
Post No. 134 of the Americi Legion
|on the death of Joseph W, Fuller,; „ Fownes, prominent winter
who passed away at his home near Pinehurst, industrial lead,
j Southern Pines on September 28th. ^j. 32 years president!
'The committee on resolutions, ap. Pittsburgh’s Oakmont Country
pointed by Commander J. F. Sin. ciub, died at his home in Oakmont,^
I Clair, comprised L. L. W ooley, D. D. suburb of Pittsburgh last Friday
S. Cameron and R. E. Denny. The res. ^ight, a victim of pneumonia. He
olutions read: was 79 years of age.
“MTiereas, The Supreme Command. Mr. Fownes had spent his winters
er has called to his High Command, in the Sandhills for many years, own.
our Comrade, Joe Fuller, whose ex. ing an attractive house near the
cellent Citizenship and Soldierly life Pinehurst Country Club. He was a
merit the highest respect and pra’se, | member of the board of directors of
' the Bank of Pinehurst and was other. ■
“Whereas, At the request of our,wise active in the upbuilding of the'
departed Legionnaire this Post was'community. In Pittsburgh he was a
awarded the honor of performing for director of the Union Trust Com. ■
him the last military rites, and the pany. He was one of the organizers ‘
same were executed by the members of the William Clark & Sons Com.'
of the Post with the assistance of the pany, which built the first mill in!
garrison of th United States Army the Homestead Steel Works and was;
stationed at Fort Bragg, : instrumental in the organization of ■
“Now, Therefore, 3e it resolved, 1 the Solar Iron Company, Rust Bailer'
that for each and every Legionnaire Company, Midland Steel Company, *
of the Sandhills Post No. 134, Amer„ Reliance Coke Company and the
lean Legion, their sympathy is ex. Standard Seamless Tube Company,
tended to the Widow and other lov. Mr. Fownes was a member of the
ed.ones of our Comrade; that the Duquesne Club, Hannastown Golf
youth of our land mark the nobility Club, Pittsburgh Country Club, Pitts,
and high purpose motivating the life burgh Athletic Club and the Alle.
of our excellent citizen.soldier and gheny Country Club,
that the public in general mark in ' He is sui vived by two sons, H. C.
his life the sterling qualities which Fownes, Jr.. and C. B. Fownes of
he possessed and which have made Pittsburgh, and two daughters, Mrs.
KE\ . E. L. B.AKBEK
145TH BIRTHDAY
OF OLD BETHESDA
MEMORABLE ONE
ONLY 52 FOR ALL N. C.
America great and without
America cannot endure.”
which
A. C. Blake Dies at
Home on Midland Rd.
Here Since 1912, He Huilt Man
or Hotel, Residence in
Pinehurst
Frederick Schaeffer of Philadelphia
and Mrs. Otton Tomec of Trenton, ■
N. J. W'. C. Fownes, Jr., of Knoll,
wood, was a brother. i
Largest Home - Coming Day
Crowd in History of Church
Celebrate Occasion
The project for a new wing for
the Moore County Hospital, for
which the county had petitioned a
fedeial grant of $25,000, was not
among those approved by the Allot
ment Board of the Public Works
Administration, it was learned at
State PWA headquarters in Chapel
Hill this week.
Projects submitted for water
works in Cameron, Carthage and
Hemp were also turned down in
Washington.
Not one dollar of PWA money was
allotted Moore county. Of 300 appli
cations for projects in North Caro
lina approved by the State PW’A and
sent on to Washington, the Allot,
ment Board approved but fifty-
two. Only $7,000,000 was allotted
North Carolina.
This does not necessarily mean
that Moore county will not get any
federal money. A number of projects,
including new school buildings, ad
ditions and alterations to present
schools and a new gymnasium for
the Southern Pines School are un
der consideration by the other gov
ernmental relief work agency, the
Works Progress Administration.
W’hat their fate will be remains to
be seen.
REV. McLEOD PREACHER
MISS POLLY LOVERING TO
WED STANLEY G. HASKINS
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Lovering
of Hoffman announce the engage,
ment of their daughter, Misa Polly
Lovering, to Stanley Graves Haskins
of New York City. Miss Lovering is
a graduate of Concord Academy,
Concord, Mass., and attended Miss
Schoff’s School in Paris. She made
her debut in Boston.
Mr. Haskins prepared at St. Mark’s
School for Harvard, where he waa
graduated with the class of 1935. He
is engaged in business in New York.
Both he and his fiancee are excellent
tennis players. The engagemnt was
announced in Boston last Saturday,
and the wedding is expected to take
place in December.
MISS TAFT TO WED
A victim of ill health and despon.,
dency, Albert C. Blacke, a resident I
of the Sandhills since 1912, shot and ^
killed himself in his residence on'
Midland Road, near the Knollwood;
section, last Thursday night. He j
was 67 years of age. |
Mr. Blake, a highly respected citi.
zen here, was born in South Royal. |
ton, Vermont on September 16th,!
1868, the son of Horatio C. and
Small .\ddition PoHsibl^
I Much disappointment was ex-
j Old Bethesda fittingly celebrated pressed locally when news came
Uts 145th anniversary last Sunday, from Chapel Hill of the county’s
The largest home.coming day crowd failure to get the new hospital wing,
in the history of the old church re. The board of directors of the insti-
turned for the services and spent a tution had waged a campaign during
happy and memorable day on the the summer to raise the 55 percent
grounds and in the ancient edifice on necessary to procure a PWA grant
the outskirts of Aberdeen. ;of 45 percent. The wing was to cost
An inspiring sermon by the Rev. approximately $56,000, and the in.
R. L. McLeod of W’inter Haven, Flor. i stitution’s authorities had their share
ida, a grandson of the church, fea.’of the necessary building fund in
brary, held last Tuesday, Miss Ruth tured the morning service. He chose sight. Just what will be done now
Burr Sanborn was unanimously as his subject. “God and the Indiv. remains for decision of the directors
elected a trustee. Miss Sanborn has idual." Though more than the usual at a meeting to be held later this
long been interested in the library number of tables had been spread un. month. It is possible that the pres_
and has been a valuable member of der the big trees surrounding the ent solarium will be transformed in_
the association. She is, as all know, church for the noon.day picnic lun. to additional patient quarters which,
a successful and versatile author, cheon, there were not enough for the
Miss Sanborn Elected
To Library Board
Winter Schedule Starts Mon
day; New Memberships
Good Through 1936
At the monthly meeting of the
trustees of the Southern Pines Li.
Lena J. Abbott
Young and the
Pearl Jones Blake
a son by
wife, resides in Southern Pines; He
first came here in 1912, lived for a
with a small addition in the rear of
the building will provide some 27
extra beds. The hospital has been
running nearly 25 percent over its
capacity, made possible by the use
Rosaline C. Blake. He was ^^^ried , ^ ^
three times, his first wife being ^ numerous Bethesda ^It was an mspiration to
his sec nd A ^ stories in magazines. One of , witness the happy reunions of the
IS secon ™^jher best short stories is published ; timers as they sat about
surviving wi o'', vveek’s Saturday Evening grounds and talked of days gone by. of the solarium as temporary patient
° ‘ j Post. ! And all ages joined in the celebration quarters. It is believed that funds in
■ a e. a son y his first Winter hours of the library will of the nearly a century and one.half hand and in sight will be sufficient
begin next Monday. The library will : good which this church has done, for such alteration and addition,
be open each week day from 10 to North Carolina. | W^orks Progress Administration
I J. W. Graham of Aberdeen opened projects approved for North Caro.
in the afternoon. \ the afternoon program, dedicated to ' lina during the past week include one
few years in Niagara and then built,,- .... ^ ^
iu J X., J '12 in the morning and from 2 to 5
his home on the double road near' ”
the steeplecha.se course. In his more
active years he built the Manor! brought to the attention of reminiscences of bye.gone days in the cainng ror a geodetic survey of
I u 1. " those not now members of the Li. church, and among others who spoke Moore county, for which $1,370 is al_
Hotel, the H. H. Rackham house andi, . , ^ J ,^ * •
the residence of H C Fownes who I Association that memberships were Lauchhn Bethune of Clinton loted. and one for carrying out a com.
also passed away durin the' ast taken out during the months and D. Scott Poole of Raeford. Mr. munity sanitation program involving
week in Pinehurst October, November and December Graham has been a ruling elder in an expenditure of $15,000 in the
Funeral services were held at his ''^^*''^' December 31. | Old Bethesda for 40 years; Mr. Poole! county.
late residence on Sunday afternoon, ^ ^ ^ '
the Rev. Dr. C. Rexford r „d : I Mr. Bethune's associa. JVIigg Carter and
of the Church of Wide Fellowship Hubert Mora^skill
ship IS taken out now. The librarian All sang ‘i^od Be With You Till: tiuucri i.TlL\^d.SKlU Vt e(l
officiating. Burial followed in Mount
Hope Cemetery.
THE CAROLINA TO OPEN
INrORM.\LLY ON OCT.
will be glad to explain the details of ^ We Meet Again’’ which, with the ben. 1
the various memberships. The annual j ediction pronounced by the Rev. Ern. Popular Young Pinehurst Cou-
30
Mrs. Ellen R. Taft of Southern
Pines announces the engagement of
her daughter, Ruby to Rupert F.
Keefe of Washington, D. C. The mar.
riage will take place in November.
The Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst
will open informaly on October 30th,
formally on November 11th. The ear
ly opening is to take care of a con.
vention of the Yarn Manufacturers’
•A.ysociation on November 1st and 2d
und for the accommodation of a
membership is one dollar, the sus. est L. Barber, pastor of the church,
taining membership five dollars, and | closed the day’s program, one long
the patron membership twenty.five ■ to be remembered by those present,
dollars. - i
pie United Before Impro
vised Altar in the Manse
VADK.N CLUB GOLFERS ' ^
• DEFEAT FORT BR.\GG ;For Jittitown Sliooting
Members of the Yadkin Golf Club
of Pinehurst defeated a picked Fort
A wedding of interest took place at
the manse in Pinehurst Saturday af.
ternoon, September 28th at 5:00
o’clock, when Miss Neva Carter, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Carter.
number of regular patrons of the
hotel who come down for the season Wednesday afternoon, 43 1-2 to 10 1.2
N’jrman Dowdy in Hospital with. became the bride of J. Hubert Me
aal 4 T m ...
Bullet Wound in Left
Shoulder
around the first of November. Mana.
ger Ed, G. Fitzgerald of the Carolina
will arrive in Pinehuist this week.
V/ednesday
IX)ints. Playing for Yadkin were the I Amos Broadway, well known col. |
following: Herbert Vail, Bradley Dav. |ored resident of West Southern Pines,
idson, Frank Keating, Frank Du
Caskill, son of Mrs. J. A. McCaa.
kill and the late J. A. McCaskill,
both of Pinehurst.
The vows were spoken before an
STIMSON AND 0’CALL.4GHAN
KIWANIS CLLTt CANDIDATES
Ipont, E. C. Keating, H. F. Seawell,
I Jr., Cobe Musser, Kenneth Trousdale,
Chester Williams, L. M Murray,
Frank McCaskill, Charles Swoope,
The annual meeting and election of Wallace, George Scott, Willard Dun.
officers of the Kiwanis Club of lop. Dr. R. P. Shepard, W. T. Ives,
Aberdeen will be held in the Pine. Everett Allen, Ferguson, McLeod and
hurst Community Church next Wed. Donald Currie.
nesday night at 7:00 o'clock. Rival —-
candidates for president for next NEW FIRE ENGINE
was ordered held under *1,000 b„i »ltar of pines and Ivy In.
by Judge J. Vance Rowe of Record J'»»<>"»
and baskets of pink roses. The Rev.
McKelway officiated.
The bride was attired In an early
fall dress of burgundy chartreuse
with accessories of black. She wore
a shoulder corsage of pink rosebuds.
Only intimate friends and relatives
were present. Immediately following
the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. McCas
kill left for a short motor trip, af-
er’s Court as the result of a shoot., ^ ^
ing affray in “Jimtown” last Sat.'
urday night. Broadway is alleged to
have shot at J. Brower and to have
hit Norman Dowdy instead. The lead
from a ,32 Colt lodged in Dowdy’s
left shoulder and he is in the Moore
County Hospital. The charge to be
placed against Broadway will be de.
termined by the outcome of the in.
year are the Rev. J. Fred Stimson The Town of Southern Pines has
and L. V. O’Callaghan, both of Sou_ ordered a new American.LaFrance jury. Broadway was arrested by Of-!ter which they will be at home in
them Pines. f*re engine for early delivery. fleers Gargis and Newton. the Market Square Apartments.